Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/14/2020

An Australian doctor was arrested and fined AU$1,652 for paddle-boarding off a beach in the suburbs of Melbourne, in violation of the Wuhan Coronavirus restrictions. Meanwhile, according to the latest polls, almost 50% of Italians want to leave the EU because of its lack of response to the pandemic. Also, Donald Trump announced that the USA will withhold funding from the WHO over its handling of the coronavirus crisis.

In other news, the United Kingdom has decided not to accept any underage migrants from refugee camps in Greece.

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Thanks to C. Cantoni, Fjordman, Insubria, JD, Reader from Chicago, SS, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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Financial Crisis
» ‘Breadlines’ Erupt Across America as Lockdowns Crush America’s “Working Poor”
» Central Bankers: We Own You! Prepare for 13 Months of Shutdowns
» Deep Economic Suffering Has Erupted All Over America, But Guess Who the Federal Reserve is Helping?
» IMF: Global Economy Will Suffer Worst Year Since Great Depression
» Italy’s GDP to Fall 9.1% in 2020, Rise 4.8% in 2021 — IMF
» Italy: Using ESM Would be Like Going to Loan Shark — Salvini
» Pope Francis Advocates for Universal Basic Income in ‘This Time of Danger’
» Significantly More Americans Worried About Economy Than Coronavirus Infection: Polls
» We’re All Fried: Powell Went Off-Grid — Pray for Mercy!
 
USA
» 3 CA Churches Sue Governor, State Attorney General Over Order Banning Religious Gatherings
» AG Barr Orders Local Governments to Stop Applying Gathering Restrictions to Churches Unfairly
» Another COVID-19 Whistleblower: A Montana Dr. Says Government is Drastically Overstating Deaths
» Army’s Seattle Field Hospital Closed After 3 Days & Without Seeing a Single Patient
» CIA ‘Warns Its Workforce of Potentially Fatal Side-Effects’ of Malaria Drug That Was Hailed by Donald Trump as a ‘Game Changer’ In the Battle Against COVID-19
» CNN’s Cuomo Suddenly Realises His Job is ‘Trafficking in the Ridiculous’
» Collateral Damage From Lockdowns
» Congressman: Trump Derangement Syndrome Now a Threat to Public Health
» Controversial Leader of Hebrew Israelite Cult Dies of Coronavirus
» COVID-19, Smartphone Surveillance, And the State
» Democrats Are Once Again Blaming the President for Circumstances and Conditions That They Helped Create
» Documents Reveal Feds Are Excited to Create a Mass Surveillance Network
» Have You Noticed How Much Delight They Are Taking in Shutting Down Churches All Over the United States?
» It’s About Calming Down
» Joe Rogan: Trump vs Biden ‘Like Mike Tyson vs a 3-Year-Old’
» Largest US Study of COVID-19 Admissions Reveals Single Biggest Factor in Hospitalization
» Mayor Dismisses $500 Tickets for Churchgoers Just Days After Ordering Them Enforced
» Microsoft Releases (And Deletes) An Ad With Elite Occultist Marina Abramovic
» Now They Are Telling us That Life in America Will Definitely Not be Returning to Normal “For the Foreseeable Future”
» Obama: Biden Has Most Left-Wing Platform of Any Major Nominee Ever
» Obama: “I’m Proud to Endorse My Friend Joe Biden for President”
» q u a r a n t i n e
» The Chloroquine Affair — How Media Brainwashes & Then Politicizes Their Audiences
» The CDC Confesses to Lying About COVID-19 Death Numbers
» Thousands of Michiganders Vow to Protest Governor’s Extreme Lockdown Order With in-Vehicle Demonstration at Capitol Building
» Trump Halts U.S. Funding to World Health Organization Over Coronavirus Failures
» ‘Tyrant’ Governor: Nails on Road, Police Presence Greet Christians at Church
» Video: Trump Lambastes CBS Reporter for Questioning His Montage — “You Know You’re a Fake”
» Watch Trump Crush News Media for ‘Lying and Purposely Distorting Things’
» White House Will Reportedly Share Guidelines for Reopening the Economy This Week
» Who Was Bill Gates Before Microsoft?
 
Canada
» Academic Who Blew the Whistle on China’s Influence on Australia Says Canada is in Even Worse Trouble
 
Europe and the EU
» After Coronavirus Response Failures, Almost Half of Italians Want to Leave the EU
» Germany: Police Officer Saves Colleague From Knife-Wielding Moroccan
» Italian Firms Will Need 1 Bn Masks a Month — Study
» Italians Offered Cash to Film ‘Thank You Russia’ Videos for Coronavirus Aid — Reports
» Italy: Coronavirus: Milan Care Home and Others Raided
» Italy: Coronavirus: Number of Infected Up 675, Lowest Daily Rise in Over a Month
» Netherlands: Foreigners Attack and Spit on Gay Couple in Amsterdam (Video)
» Poland Creates Its Own Coronavirus Tests With 100% Efficiency
» Police in France and Germany Attacked Multiple Times Over Easter Weekend (Video)
» Swedish Writer Claimed Boris Johnson Caught Coronavirus Deliberately for Political Gain
» UK: Coronavirus: Raab Expected to Announce Lockdown Will Last Three More Weeks
» UK: Disabled Man Gets Police Visit Because Neighbor Offered to Cut His Grass
» UK: Farage: We Mustn’t Accept a Brexit Delay Because of Coronavirus
» UK: Ill Children, Autistic People, Seniors Pressured to Sign ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ Forms
» UK: Migrant Rapist to be Released After Airline Passenger Revolt
 
Middle East
» The UAE Doesn’t Want the War in Syria to End
 
Russia
» Forest Fires Rage Near Chernobyl Nuclear Plant
 
South Asia
» India: Huge Crowd Stops Islamic Cleric From Being Quarantined
 
Far East
» CNN Basically Published a Press Release From the Chinese Military
» Coronavirus Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics
» In 2018, US State Department Cables Warned of Potential ‘SARS-Like Pandemic’ After Visiting Wuhan Lab Experimenting With Bat Coronavirus
» More Possible Excuses for Tyranny: 6 New Coronaviruses Found in Bats
» U.S. Officials Warned of Possible Pandemic in 2018 After Visiting Unsafe Chinese Lab Experimenting With Bat Coronavirus
» Zoom Will Let Paying Users Stop Their Data Being Routed Through China as Part of the Video Conferencing App’s Latest Security Update
 
Australia — Pacific
» Australian Police Fine Couple $1,060 After They Posted Old Vacation Photos
» Exclusive: Daily Mail Investigation Takes You Inside the Melbourne Business Park Accused of Being ‘Ground Zero’ For the Secretive Baby Formula Export Trade — as Coronavirus Panic-Buying Brawls Erupt Over Precious Powder
» Fears for the Future of Australian Universities With Widespread Job Losses and Cutbacks Expected Due to Plunge in Number of Foreign Students During Coronavirus Lockdown
» Grieving Family Are Dealt Another Devastating Blow When Armed Police Storm Into Loved One’s Funeral to Enforce Coronavirus Social Distancing Rules — Even Though They Were Under 10-Person Limit
» Health Boss Says Eliminating Coronavirus Completely in Australia May Never Happen — Calling it an Unattainable ‘Nirvana’
» How Domestic Airfares Could Double in Price and Why Australians Are Set to Lose Thousands of Dollars in Pre-Booked Holidays as Travel is Likely to be Restricted Until at Least 2021
» If This Isn’t Social Distancing, What is? Paddle-Boarding Doctor is Slapped With a $1,652 Fine by Water Police for Breaching COVID-19 Restrictions
» Karl Stefanovic in Clash With Whingeing Cruise Ship Passenger Who Slammed the Government for Putting Her Up in an ‘Appalling and Dirty’ Taxpayer-Funded Quarantine Hotel — Despite Being Rescued From South America
» Poo Testing Could Provide Coronavirus Breakthrough: Expert Says Examining Waste Could Help Discover Which People Are Carrying COVID-19
» The 10 New Danger Zones in Sydney Where Any Resident With a Runny Nose, Cough or Fever is Being Urged to Get Tested for Coronavirus — as Infection Spreads Without Explanation
» Tourism Minister Warns Aussies Not to Book Overseas Holidays Because International Travel is Unlikely to Resume Until at Least 2021
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» Nigeria: 3 Christians Killed in 2 Separate Attacks by Fulani Muslim Extremists
 
Latin America
» A New Species of Black Endemic Iguanas in Caribbean is Proposed for Urgent Conservation
 
Immigration
» Greece: Turkey Again Driving Thousands of Migrants to Border
» Libya Returns African Migrants to Their Countries of Origin
» Report: Turkey Plans to Send Fresh Wave of Corona-Infected Migrants to Europe
» UK Refuses to Take Migrants From Greece
» Underage Migrants Arrested After 28 Pharmacies Robbed in French City
 
Culture Wars
» Canadian Army Personnel Now Forbidden From Using Gendered Pronouns in Official Documents
» Feminists Attack Proposed Polish Law Banning Abortions on Babies With Disabilities
» Tech Giants Like Google Begin Censoring ‘Unapproved Sermons’ As Churches Are Forced Online Due to Coronavirus Lockdown
» UK: BBC Censors ‘Little Britain’ Because it Offends Snowflakes
» UK: Former Prisons Minister Reveals Trans Inmates Have Raped Female Staff
» Which is Going to Die First — Corona Virus Fever or Climate Change?
 

‘Breadlines’ Erupt Across America as Lockdowns Crush America’s “Working Poor”

The economy has crashed into a depression, 16.78 million Americans have applied for unemployment benefits, and consumer sentiment crashed the most on record. This American horror story has taken only three weeks to play out, the fastest and most severe economic crash in the country’s history, and still, we don’t know the true extent of the damage until the second half of the year.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Central Bankers: We Own You! Prepare for 13 Months of Shutdowns

Central bankers at the Federal Reserve are warning Americans that they plan to take action and enslave you for the next 18 months. Neel Kashkari, the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, basically said that central bankers own you and they want ultimate control for the next 18 months, according to a report by Market Watch.

Central bankers like Kashkari will decide if and when you can run a business. They will decide what kind of life you’ll live and the will decide that you don’t have any human rights. Kashkari didn’t mince words. He wants Americans to be ready for 18 months of ultimate enslavement and all but said that during a CBS interview on Sunday morning.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Deep Economic Suffering Has Erupted All Over America, But Guess Who the Federal Reserve is Helping?

As millions upon millions of Americans lose their jobs in the greatest wave of unemployment in U.S. history, the Federal Reserve has decided that now is the time to spend trillions of newly created dollars in a desperate attempt to protect financial asset values.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

IMF: Global Economy Will Suffer Worst Year Since Great Depression

WASHINGTON (AP) — Beaten down by the coronavirus outbreak, the world economy in 2020 will suffer its worst year since the Great Depression of the 1930s, the International Monetary Fund says in its latest forecast.

The IMF said Tuesday that it expects the global economy to shrink 3% this year — far worse than its 0.1% dip in the Great Recession year of 2009 — before rebounding in 2021 with 5.8% growth. It acknowledges, though, that prospects for a rebound next year are clouded by uncertainty.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Italy’s GDP to Fall 9.1% in 2020, Rise 4.8% in 2021 — IMF

Unemployment to rise to 12.7% this year says Fund

(ANSA) — New York, April 14 — The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday that Italy’s GDP will fall 9.1% due to the coronavirus this year and rebound 4.8% next year.

The new forecasts revised Italy’s 2020 GDP downwards by 9.6% and its 2021 GDP upwards by 4.1%.

The IMF said Italian unemployment would rise to 12.7% this year.

This year will see the worst global recession since the Great Depression, the IMF said.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Using ESM Would be Like Going to Loan Shark — Salvini

Clash over Conte’s words reaches RAI panel

(ANSA) — Rome, April 14 — Using the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) bailout fund in the coronavirus crisis would be “like going to the loan shark”, opposition nationalist League party leader Matteo Salvini said Monday.

The ESM gives out loans at usury rates, like when you go to the loan shark,” he said, adding that Italians don’t want money from other countries.

“It would be enough for us to use the money that the Italians have given to Europe in these years”.

The Eurogroup agreed last week that the ESM could grant coronavirus funding for up to 2% of GDP, but Premier Giuseppe Conte has said Italy will not use the bailout fund.

He has attacked Salvini and others on the centre right for accusing him of agreeing to the ESM use, and Salvini and allies have accused the premier of using RAI state broadcaster for alleged propaganda against them.

The clash has been taken up by the parliamentary oversight commission on RAI.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Pope Francis Advocates for Universal Basic Income in ‘This Time of Danger’

“This may be the time to consider a universal basic wage which would acknowledge and dignify the noble, essential tasks you carry out,” Pope Francis wrote. “It would ensure and concretely achieve the ideal, at once so human and so Christian, of no worker without rights.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Significantly More Americans Worried About Economy Than Coronavirus Infection: Polls

Numerous polls reveal that the top concern on most Americans’ minds right now is not the coronavirus but the effect that the illness — and the widespread societal shutdowns that have followed it — will have on the economy.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

We’re All Fried: Powell Went Off-Grid — Pray for Mercy!

There’s no going back from this.

On Thursday, the Federal Reserve began buying the bonds, graded as JUNK, and truly brought an end to the free-trading bonds markets. Risk isn’t priced in a NORMAL way any longer.

When a bank that is the world’s LENDER OF LAST RESORT has gone all-in, we’re no longer living under the same monetary and capitalistic roof we did before…

Left alone, the market would have IMPLODED. Literally, if the FED hadn’t bailed out the sovereign bonds, the U.S. government would have been left without monies.

The world WOULD HAVE entered a spiraling depression, which would have been DESTABILIZING and may have led to wars, riots and years of DEVASTATION for all of us.

Instead, it MONETIZED debt. By simply increasing the dollar money supply, it injected all of the necessary amounts to keep markets alive, but the price to pay for this is NOT YET KNOWN and may end up being GREATER than the current predicament.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

3 CA Churches Sue Governor, State Attorney General Over Order Banning Religious Gatherings

Three churches in southern California have sued Gov. Gavin Newsom, state Attorney General Xavier Becerra, and officials in Riverside and San Bernardino counties over stay-at-home orders that prohibit religious gatherings.

The Center for American Liberty, a California nonprofit group, filed suit Monday on behalf of three pastors and one parishioner. The pastors are from Word of Life Ministries International in Riverside, Shield of Faith Family Church in Fontana, and Church Unlimited in Indio. Church Unlimited’s senior pastor received a $1,000 fine from Riverside County for conducting a Palm Sunday service.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

AG Barr Orders Local Governments to Stop Applying Gathering Restrictions to Churches Unfairly

Attorney General William Barr released an official statement Tuesday afternoon directing local governments across the U.S. to cease applying social-gathering restrictions to church unfairly.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Another COVID-19 Whistleblower: A Montana Dr. Says Government is Drastically Overstating Deaths

Another COVID-19 whistleblower has come forward, and this time it’s a Montana doctor. She says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (run by the United States government) is asking medical doctors to drastically overstate COVID-19 deaths to panic the public into “relinquishing cherished freedoms.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Army’s Seattle Field Hospital Closed After 3 Days & Without Seeing a Single Patient

The panic and fear among the people who cannot be bothered to read the actual statistics about this pandemic is what should concern most preppers. In fact, this virus has been so overhyped that the Army’s field hospital in Seattle, an “epicenter” of the pandemic has closed after three days without seeing one single COVID-19 patient.

According to a report by Military.com, the hastily built field hospital set up by the Army in Seattle’s pro football stadium is shutting down without ever seeing a patient. This is being done “so the service can shift resources where they’re more urgently needed”, Washington state Governor Jay Inslee said.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

CIA ‘Warns Its Workforce of Potentially Fatal Side-Effects’ of Malaria Drug That Was Hailed by Donald Trump as a ‘Game Changer’ In the Battle Against COVID-19

Sudden death is one of the suspected side effects of hydroxychloroquine, according to the Langley-based intelligence agency in a memo to its workforce posted online.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

CNN’s Cuomo Suddenly Realises His Job is ‘Trafficking in the Ridiculous’

CNN anchor Chris Cuomo made a startling confession Monday, declaring that he doesn’t value his job and that CNN is “trafficking in things that I think are ridiculous.”

In a Howard Beale-esq moment, Cuomo made the comments on his SiriusXM show, apparently having an epiphany after contracting coronavirus.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Collateral Damage From Lockdowns

The lockdowns or stay-at-home orders surrounding COVID-19 are increasing domestic and child abuse, child sexual exploitation, alcohol consumption, pornography, mental stress, and suicide.

Forbes reported on a news report from the Kaiser Family Foundation that shows mental health stress is increasing for everyone. By mid-March, 32 percent of people polled said the worry and stress about COVID-19 had a negative effect on their mental health. By the end of March, that number rose to 45 percent. The numbers are even higher for parents with children under 18, with mothers feeling the stress more than fathers.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Congressman: Trump Derangement Syndrome Now a Threat to Public Health

Trump Derangement Syndrome — a “reflexive refusal to agree with any position that President Donald Trump takes, regardless of merit” — is becoming a “particularly dangerous” contagion, according to a member of Congress.

U.S. Rep. Ted Budd, R-N.C., wrote in a commentary for the Daily Signal that the affliction has risen to the level of a public health threat.

Budd, a member of the House Financial Services Committee, cited the media’s response to the president’s suggestion that hydroxychloroquine, long used against malaria, might have beneficial effects against COVID-19.

“Sufferers from TDS immediately set out to prove him wrong,” he said. “CNN published an ‘analysis’titled: ‘Trump peddles unsubstantiated hope in dark times,’ and The Washington Post proclaimed: ‘Trump is giving people false hope of coronavirus cures. It’s all snake oil.’“

However, the congressman points out, “several medical studies have suggested that these drugs have promise.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Controversial Leader of Hebrew Israelite Cult Dies of Coronavirus

The controversial leader of a Hebrew Israelite cult died of the coronavirus on April 1, the church said in a letter.

Jermaine Grant, 44, was the leader of the Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ in Harlem. He was recently sentenced to serve 18 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to stealing church funds and was waiting to serve his sentence at the time of his death.

Grant was known to his devout followers as the “Holy God Sent Comforter” and “Chief High Priest Tazadaqyah,” but others who have left the church have described him as a cult leader with complete influence over his follower’s lives.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

COVID-19, Smartphone Surveillance, And the State

For the state, there is one primary imperative—to remain in power at all cost. If this imperative is to be successful, the state must impose, by stealth or deception, a system capable of monitoring all individuals who may pose an immediate or future threat to its dominance.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Democrats Are Once Again Blaming the President for Circumstances and Conditions That They Helped Create

Back in January, criminally insane Democrats called President Trump xenophobic for restricting travel between the U.S. and China, in the midst of a potential viral pandemic. After calling the President a racist and accusing him of overreacting to the spread of Covid-19, Democrats turned around and accused the President of not doing enough to stop the spread of the virus. Folks, Democrats and their media mouthpieces are not only sociopaths, they are total imbeciles as well.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Documents Reveal Feds Are Excited to Create a Mass Surveillance Network

A FOIA request by the Electronic Privacy Information Center revealed how excited the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) is about using CCTV cameras to create a national surveillance network.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Have You Noticed How Much Delight They Are Taking in Shutting Down Churches All Over the United States?

Did you think that you would ever see the day when police in America would be patrolling church parking lots on Sunday morning in order to keep people away? And did you think that you would ever see the day when Christians would be threatened with having their license plates recorded if they did attend church? That is what the Democratic governor of the state of Kentucky just did, and he is getting a lot of national backlash over that move. When “shelter-in-place” orders were first instituted all over the nation, most of them seemed quite reasonable, and we assumed that our leaders would use common sense in enforcing them. But in recent days it has become clear that in many areas of the country churches and other Christian gatherings are specifically being singled out, and in some cases authorities have seemed to take quite a bit of glee in cracking down on Christians. This sort of tyranny was never part of the bargain, and believers all over America are rightly pushing back against it.

Every American should be deeply alarmed by the precedent that is being set right now. If our churches can be shut down any time an “emergency” comes along, and if the bar for declaring an “emergency” just keeps getting lower and lower, it creates the potential for a whole lot of abuse by tyrants both big and small in the days ahead.

Some of the things that we have seen happen over the last several days have been alarming to the extreme. The following are just a few examples…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

It’s About Calming Down

I am getting far more information about the disease from my friends, who have taken the time to do their own analysis of the data being presented, what I get from Statistica (a website that provides excellent charts) and my own knowledge of wargaming, modeling and statistical analysis. What I am hearing on the news, when I happen to buzz through it when channel surfing in my palatial hospital room, is total, absolute, unmitigated bull hockey. I am shocked the President is believing any of what is being fed by these “experts.” What a crock!!

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Joe Rogan: Trump vs Biden ‘Like Mike Tyson vs a 3-Year-Old’

In a new rant, podcast host Joe Rogan compared presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden going up against President Trump as akin to a 3-year-old trying to compete with Mike Tyson in the boxing ring.

“It shows you how crazy the system is that they wanted him,” Rogan said of the Democratic Party.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Largest US Study of COVID-19 Admissions Reveals Single Biggest Factor in Hospitalization

The largest study to date of US hospital admissions for COVID-19 reveals that obesity and age are the largest factors in whether a person had to be admitted to a hospital.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Mayor Dismisses $500 Tickets for Churchgoers Just Days After Ordering Them Enforced

The mayor of a small Mississippi town has waived numerous $500 tickets given to local churchgoers just days after he originally authorized police to distribute the citations to local residents who were attending church services.

Greenville, Mississippi, Mayor Errick Simmons has received sharp criticism, including from his state’s governor, for ordering the ticketing of churchgoing residents who had remained in their cars with their windows rolled up during a church service.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Microsoft Releases (And Deletes) An Ad With Elite Occultist Marina Abramovic

On Good Friday, Microsoft released a video promoting its association with the elite’s favorite artist: Marina Abramovic. After massive backlash, the video was set to “private” and all traces of the campaign were scrubbed from Microsoft’s official website. Here’s what this fiasco was all about.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Now They Are Telling us That Life in America Will Definitely Not be Returning to Normal “For the Foreseeable Future”

If you thought that this pandemic would pass quickly and that life in America would soon return to “normal”, I am afraid that you are in for quite a shock. Some of the restrictions currently in place will eventually be lifted, and efforts will be made to get people back to work, but life is still going to be radically different from what we had become accustomed to before COVID-19 started sweeping across the globe. Authorities are telling us that there may be “rolling shutdowns” for up to 18 months, that social distancing guidelines will be necessary for a long time to come, and that this crisis will not ultimately be resolved until they can inject everyone with a vaccine. If all of this greatly alarms you, please be assured that you are not alone.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Obama: Biden Has Most Left-Wing Platform of Any Major Nominee Ever

Former President Barack Obama said Tuesday that 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden has the most left-wing platform of any major nominee in history.

Obama discussed Biden’s platform as he announced his official endorsement of his former vice president to become POTUS. Before emphasizing that Biden has the “most progressive platform” of any nominee in history, Obama said that if he were running for president in 2020, he would not have run on the same platform that he did in 2008.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Obama: “I’m Proud to Endorse My Friend Joe Biden for President”

Former president Barack Obama endorsed his former VP Joe Biden for president Tuesday in a video posted to social media.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

q u a r a n t i n e

Dancing nurses, endless lockdowns & cringe memes.

What a time to be alive!

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

The Chloroquine Affair — How Media Brainwashes & Then Politicizes Their Audiences

In a coordinated effort led by GOOGLE searches that return answers on board with Democrat narratives we see in the mainstream media that has gone into frantic hypermode denying first, and covering up second, the reports of the effectiveness of the malaria and Lupus drug PLAQUÉNIL, aka, hydroxychloroquine.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The CDC Confesses to Lying About COVID-19 Death Numbers

Can any government statistics on COVID-19 deaths be trusted?

It is an open question now that we are learning that the highly respected, world-class Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been lying to us.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Thousands of Michiganders Vow to Protest Governor’s Extreme Lockdown Order With in-Vehicle Demonstration at Capitol Building

Thousands of Michigan residents are planning a major protest against state Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Wednesday by driving to the state capitol building, vowing to demonstrate against the governor’s broad coronavirus lockdown measures.

The protest, named “Operation Gridlock,” had nearly 4,000 participants listed on its Facebook event page as of Tuesday afternoon. The activists are urging citizens to drive to the state’s capital, Lansing, on Wednesday at noon.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Trump Halts U.S. Funding to World Health Organization Over Coronavirus Failures

President Trump on Tuesday announced that he has ordered a halt to U.S. funding to the World Health Organization while a probe into the group’s response to the coronavirus pandemic is conducted.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

‘Tyrant’ Governor: Nails on Road, Police Presence Greet Christians at Church

Kentucky Christians who attended drive-in services on Easter — despite warnings from the governor to stay home over the coronavirus pandemic — were met by police presence and nails dumped in the road, the pastor of a Kentucky church said.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Video: Trump Lambastes CBS Reporter for Questioning His Montage — “You Know You’re a Fake”

After President Trump played his media smackdown montage Monday, a CBS news reporter decided to still challenge him about his team’s coronavirus response, prompting another tense exchange.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Watch Trump Crush News Media for ‘Lying and Purposely Distorting Things’

Establishment media outlets were outraged Tuesday that President Trump dared to assemble a video of their statements and claims about the coronavirus pandemic.

See the video: pic.twitter.com/6fEymjTjUM

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

White House Will Reportedly Share Guidelines for Reopening the Economy This Week

The Trump administration this week will reportedly share guidelines on reopening the American economy, a possible turning point in the ongoing economic crisis that has gripped the United States since the coronavirus began spreading.

National Economic Council Chairman Larry Kudlow said on Tuesday that the president “will be making some very important announcements” in the next few days regarding the federal guidelines for restarting economic activity throughout the country.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Who Was Bill Gates Before Microsoft?

This is a video about philanthropic billionaire, Bill Gates. We go into his family history, his early childhood, education, extracurriculars, and time at Harvard to answer the question “Who was Bill Gates before Microsoft?”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Academic Who Blew the Whistle on China’s Influence on Australia Says Canada is in Even Worse Trouble

‘When I look at the subtle but intense influence of China on Canadian institutions … it makes me deadly worried,’ says Clive Hamilton

Silent Invasion, Clive Hamilton’s ground-breaking book about China’s covert influence on Australian society, has been both applauded as an overdue exposé and criticized as an exaggeration of the problem. But when he finished the book, he received some unwanted validation of its central thesis: three Australian publishers declined to publish it, citing fear of retribution from Beijing or its allies.

Hamilton, a professor of public ethics at Canberra’s Charles Sturt University and former executive director of progressive think-tank The Australia Institute, eventually found a willing publisher, and now is working on a sequel dealing with similar issues in North America. What he’s discovered so far makes him very concerned for Canada. He spoke with the National Post during a visit to Toronto.

Some experts suggest the problem of Chinese soft-power interference is much more pronounced in Australia and New Zealand than here. Do you agree?

I think it’s more of a problem in Canada.

Yes, Australia’s economic dependence is higher — in terms of trade — but when I look, as I have been doing, at the subtle but intense influence of China on Canadian institutions — parliaments, provincial governments, local governments, universities, the intellectual community, the policy community — it makes me deadly worried.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

After Coronavirus Response Failures, Almost Half of Italians Want to Leave the EU

A Tecnè poll has revealed that Italians are becoming more and more critical of the European Union, with 49 per cent saying they want Italy out.

Just 51 per cent of the Italian public said they want to remain in the EU, which has been widely criticised across the country for lack of solidarity with Italy since the start of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak.

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Germany: Police Officer Saves Colleague From Knife-Wielding Moroccan

Frankfurt police were forced to shoot a knife-wielding Moroccan migrant after they were dispatched to the city’s railway station district on Saturday evening.

While trying to identify two men at the railway station, another man armed with two knives attempted to sneak up behind the police officers, German news outlet N-TV reports.

Luckily, one of the police officers pulled his colleague away before the crazed, knife-wielding lunatic before had a chance to stab him.

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Italian Firms Will Need 1 Bn Masks a Month — Study

456 million gloves needed for restart after lockdown too

(ANSA) — Turin, April 14 — Italian businesses will need almost one billion face masks a month when they emerge from coronavirus lockdown as well as 456 million gloves, 2.1 million thermometers, and 250,000 hair nets for long hair, a study by Turin’s Politecnico university said Tuesday.

“We calculated the needs for the firms in Piedmont and believe that each figure needs to be multiplied by 12,” said rector Guido Saracco.

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Italians Offered Cash to Film ‘Thank You Russia’ Videos for Coronavirus Aid — Reports

Russian nationals in Italy are offering Italians money to film themselves thanking Russia and President Vladimir Putin for recent coronavirus aid, Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper reported Sunday.

Russia dispatched army medics in March to help disinfect hospitals and care facilities in a northern Italian region that has been hit hardest by the country’s coronavirus outbreak. The aid was followed by allegations that most of the Russian supplies were useless and that some of Russia’s contingent included spies, which Moscow dismissed as “Cold War fake news.”

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Italy: Coronavirus: Milan Care Home and Others Raided

Pio Albergo Trivulzio at centre of virus deaths probe

(ANSA) — Milan, April 14 — The Pio Albergo Trivulzio was raided Monday in a probe into the famed Milanese care home where scores of residents have reportedly died with the coronavirus.

Other care homes in Milan and in the wider Lombardy region with an allegedly suspiciously high rate of virus fatalities were also raided.

These included the Sacra Famiglia home at Cesano Boscone, a home at Settimo Milanese, and care homes in the Bergamo area.

Police reportedly took a huge amount of documents from the Pio Albergo Trivulzio.

Some 143 elderly residents have died there since the beginning of March, ANSA sources said.

Police are looking into possible negligence in care.

A probe has also been opened into care homes in the province of Sondrio north of Milan.

Judicial sources also said NAS health and hygiene police from Milan had raided care homes in four Lombard provinces they have competence over, namely Milan, Monza, Come and Varese.

The heads of several homes have been placed under investigation on suspicion of culpable negligence.

Sources said police suspect many deaths may have been caused by an alleged failure to wear protective equipment.

In Cuneo a probe into “culpable epidemic” was opened.

In southern Italy, a probe into care homes in the province of Bari in Puglia was also opened, against person or persons unknown, over coronavirus-related deaths.

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Italy: Coronavirus: Number of Infected Up 675, Lowest Daily Rise in Over a Month

COVID-19 deaths in Italy up 602 to 21,067

(ANSA) — Rome, April 14 — The Civil Protection Department said Tuesday that 104,291 people are currently infected with the coronavirus in Italy, 675 more than Monday. It is the lowest daily increase in more than a month, since the 620 rise in infected on March 6. Monday’s rise was 1,363. The department said 21,067 people have died with the coronavirus here, up 602. Monday’s daily rise in COVID-19-linked deaths was 566.

It said 37,130 people have recovered from the coronavirus, up 1,695. Monday’s rise was 1,224.

The total number of COVID-19 cases in Italy, including the deceased and those who have recovered, is 162,488, up 2,972 with respect to Monday. The overall number of swabs taken is 1,073,689, over 26,000 more than Monday. Some 525,000 have been taken in Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna and Veneto.

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Netherlands: Foreigners Attack and Spit on Gay Couple in Amsterdam (Video)

A gay couple walking hand-in-hand in Amsterdam were harassed, attacked, and spit on by a group of foreigners on Monday. Photos and video footage of the incident have surfaced on social media.

During the ordeal, the two victims contacted the police and recorded video from their mobile phones. Although the hoodlums fled the scene when police officers arrived, two of them came back later and spat on the couple, Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reports

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Poland Creates Its Own Coronavirus Tests With 100% Efficiency

Poland has created its own coronavirus test that works with 100 percent efficiency, according to the National Institute of Public Health (PZH)

Dr. Luiza Handschuh of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) explained that the tests will be produced as early as in two weeks and there will be between 100,000 to 150,000 of them.

Polish health authorities began working on creating the tests to ensure the country has an adequate amount of tests during a global shortage.

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Police in France and Germany Attacked Multiple Times Over Easter Weekend (Video)

Despite strict lockdown measures that are in place in both countries, police officers in France and Germany were the victims of several attacks last weekend.

Multiple officers trying to enforce lockdown and social distancing measures over Easter weekend in Frankfurt, Germany were attacked by mobs of people armed with stones, iron bars, and other weapons, Deutsche Welle reports.

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Swedish Writer Claimed Boris Johnson Caught Coronavirus Deliberately for Political Gain

Swedish writer Moa Berglöf has received pushback after insinuating that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson purposely caught the Wuhan coronavirus to distract the public.

Berglöf, who served as a speechwriter for former Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, said that the British leader was playing a “high-stakes game” by becoming infected with the Chinese virus and ending up in intensive care.

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UK: Coronavirus: Raab Expected to Announce Lockdown Will Last Three More Weeks

Senior minister Dominic Raab is expected to announce that the coronavirus lockdown will continue for another three weeks.

The First Secretary of State is deputising for Prime Minister Boris Johnson and is reported to be planning to announce on Thursday that the government-enforced social distancing measures will go on until May 7th. Mr Raab is expected to meet with scientists and other experts on Tuesday and Thursday to discuss lockdown options.

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UK: Disabled Man Gets Police Visit Because Neighbor Offered to Cut His Grass

A disabled man in the UK received a police visit because his neighbor offered to cut his grass during the coronavirus lockdown.

Yes, really.

63-year-old Adrian Rimington said his friend visited to offer the good deed but that after he left, two Derbyshire Police officers knocked on his door.

“One said ‘we’ve had a report from someone that your gardener entered your house in order to plug in your lawnmower’,” said Rimington.

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UK: Farage: We Mustn’t Accept a Brexit Delay Because of Coronavirus

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage told Britons that they must not accept that leaving the European Union’s institutions at the end of 2020 should be delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Marking the first anniversary of the Brexit Party’s Coventry launch, Mr Farage thanked the hundreds of thousands who donated money and the five million who voted for a party that was just weeks old at the time of the May European Parliament elections, putting the Brexit Party in first place.

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UK: Ill Children, Autistic People, Seniors Pressured to Sign ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ Forms

The family of an 11-year-old cancer sufferer and an autistic support group have been pressured to sign ‘do not resuscitate’ (DNR) forms during the coronavirus pandemic.

Ilhan Ates-Suddes from Scarborough suffers from a rare cancer, called a Desmoid tumour, in his neck and jaw. His mother Margaret expressed shock when the family’s general practitioner asked the family if they wanted to sign a DNR form in case he contracts Chinese coronavirus.

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UK: Migrant Rapist to be Released After Airline Passenger Revolt

A convicted rapist whose deportation from the United Kingdom was stopped when passengers on the plane he was to be transported on mutinied in protest is being released back into the general public.

Yaqub Ahmed, a 30-year-old Somali national, has already served a nine-year sentence for having participated in the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl in London in August 2007. All four of the perpetrators — all north Africans — were convicted for the crime, although the Home Office has been unable to deport any of the men following their incarceration.

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The UAE Doesn’t Want the War in Syria to End

by Youcef Oussama Bounab

by Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Mohammed Bin Zayed offered money to the Syrian regime in a secret meeting between al-Assad and an Emirati senior diplomat to breach the ceasefire agreement that Syria, Russia and Turkey reached in early March. This is according to a report in the London-based Middle East Eye last week, which cited unnamed high-ranking sources familiar with Turkish diplomacy.

What Does Bin Zayed Want?

Bin Zayed, who opposed a truce in Syria altogether from the beginning, repeatedly attempted to break the ceasefire agreement by urging Assad to resume military action against Turkish troops and Turkish-backed forces in the northeastern part of Syria. This area is the last opposition stronghold where Turkey and Russia have been intervening militarily, and which Syria is trying to recover control of.

The sources that the Middle East Eye cited said that Bin Zayed offered the sum of $3 billion after the Syrian regime said it needed financial support and requested $5 billion.

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Forest Fires Rage Near Chernobyl Nuclear Plant

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Forest fires raged Tuesday in the contaminated area near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, but officials insisted there is no radiation threat.

Hundreds of firefighters backed by aircraft have been battling several forest fires around Chernobyl since last week. They managed to contain the initial blazes, but new fires are now raging close to the decommissioned plant.

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India: Huge Crowd Stops Islamic Cleric From Being Quarantined

Video footage shows a huge crowd of Muslims in India flooding the street to prevent health authorities quarantining an Islamic scholar believed to be infected with coronavirus.

The incident took place in Balbhoonpura. The clip shows the huge mob not even attempting to practice “social distancing” as they angrily chant slogans and march through the street.

“Hundreds of Muslims came out onto the streets to prevent the Islamic cleric from being quarantined,” reports OpIndia.

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CNN Basically Published a Press Release From the Chinese Military

CNN published a report Monday from the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) about how the country’s Navy is reportedly doing a much better job containing the novel coronavirus than its American counterparts.

The report came from China’s English PLA website, CNN noted. The network wrote that their Navy “has done a much better job controlling coronavirus than the US Navy,” according to the PLA.

Portions of CNN’s write-up are extremely similar to the PLA’s military press release.

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Coronavirus Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics

As the world begins a second month of lockdown in response to the nightmare known as the coronavirus, it is essential to examine how this mess developed and how we return to some semblance of normalcy.

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In 2018, US State Department Cables Warned of Potential ‘SARS-Like Pandemic’ After Visiting Wuhan Lab Experimenting With Bat Coronavirus

The US State Department received two cables from US Embassy officials in 2018 warning of inadequate safety at a Wuhan, China biolab conducting ‘risky studies’ on bat coronaviruses, according to the Washington Post, which notes that the cables have “fueled discussions inside the U.S. government about whether this or another Wuhan lab was the source of the virus.”

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More Possible Excuses for Tyranny: 6 New Coronaviruses Found in Bats

Scientists have discovered 6 new coronaviruses in bats. As we’ve seen, just one is enough to cause panic and tyranny, so now that we know of 6 more, governments won’t hesitate to use this as an excuse to further stamp out your human right to liberty should any of these transmit to humans.

The research, published in PLOS ONE, notes that the viruses were discovered between 2016 and 2018, but aren’t believed to be related to SARS-CoV-2, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) or Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), which all jumped from animals to humans.

While it’s always important to be aware of what kind of viruses are out there and cause illnesses, it’s also important to know that anytime something even remotely minor happens again, the elitists will try to use it as another excuse to put all people on house arrest through fear and propaganda.

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U.S. Officials Warned of Possible Pandemic in 2018 After Visiting Unsafe Chinese Lab Experimenting With Bat Coronavirus

U.S. officials warned the federal government in 2018 that a Chinese virology lab experimenting with bat coronavirus near what would eventually become the origin of the COVID-19 outbreak had serious safety issues that posed a significant risk of a worldwide pandemic.

U.S. Embassy officials in China had visited the Wuhan Institute of Virology several times and had eventually warned American authorities that the lab had a “serious shortage of appropriately trained technicians and investigators needed to safely operate this high-containment laboratory.”

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Zoom Will Let Paying Users Stop Their Data Being Routed Through China as Part of the Video Conferencing App’s Latest Security Update

The video conferencing service admitted last week that some meetings may have had data routed through China when using the service.

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Australian Police Fine Couple $1,060 After They Posted Old Vacation Photos

Jaz and Garry Mott of Victoria, Australia thought it would be nice to share photos of their 2019 vacation with their Facebook friends. Unfortunately, eagle-eyed police officers spotted the photos and assumed that they’d been taken during mandatory stay-at-home orders.

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Exclusive: Daily Mail Investigation Takes You Inside the Melbourne Business Park Accused of Being ‘Ground Zero’ For the Secretive Baby Formula Export Trade — as Coronavirus Panic-Buying Brawls Erupt Over Precious Powder

Precious baby formula is being exported to China on an industrial scale from a small business park in Melbourne amid growing tension over local shortages and panic buying.

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Fears for the Future of Australian Universities With Widespread Job Losses and Cutbacks Expected Due to Plunge in Number of Foreign Students During Coronavirus Lockdown

Australian universities are calling for more funding from the government to combat widespread job losses and cutbacks due to the plunge in foreign students.

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Grieving Family Are Dealt Another Devastating Blow When Armed Police Storm Into Loved One’s Funeral to Enforce Coronavirus Social Distancing Rules — Even Though They Were Under 10-Person Limit

A woman has spoken of her shock and heartbreak after a funeral home worker asked her to respect social distancing measures and step away from her deceased father’s coffin

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Health Boss Says Eliminating Coronavirus Completely in Australia May Never Happen — Calling it an Unattainable ‘Nirvana’

While Professor Brendan Murphy remains committed towards getting transmissions down to as low as possible, he believes the ultimate goal of total elimination could be unachievable.

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How Domestic Airfares Could Double in Price and Why Australians Are Set to Lose Thousands of Dollars in Pre-Booked Holidays as Travel is Likely to be Restricted Until at Least 2021

Budding holidaymakers were warned not to book any trips abroad for the foreseeable future, with the ban likely to be in place until 2021, officials said.

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If This Isn’t Social Distancing, What is? Paddle-Boarding Doctor is Slapped With a $1,652 Fine by Water Police for Breaching COVID-19 Restrictions

Water police escorted the man back to shore after catching him out on the water off Elwood Beach in Melbourne’s suburbs after 5pm on Easter Monday, reported the Herald Sun.

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Karl Stefanovic in Clash With Whingeing Cruise Ship Passenger Who Slammed the Government for Putting Her Up in an ‘Appalling and Dirty’ Taxpayer-Funded Quarantine Hotel — Despite Being Rescued From South America

Jan Richards got into debate with Today host Karl Stefanovic as she bemoaned the 14-day tax-payer funded stay in Melbourne.

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Poo Testing Could Provide Coronavirus Breakthrough: Expert Says Examining Waste Could Help Discover Which People Are Carrying COVID-19

Researchers at Australian National University will look through defecation in hopes of finding signs of traces of coronavirus.

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The 10 New Danger Zones in Sydney Where Any Resident With a Runny Nose, Cough or Fever is Being Urged to Get Tested for Coronavirus — as Infection Spreads Without Explanation

The areas have been flagged as possible virus hotspots because patients have tested positive without knowing where they caught the disease, suggesting that community transmission is happening.

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Tourism Minister Warns Aussies Not to Book Overseas Holidays Because International Travel is Unlikely to Resume Until at Least 2021

Holidaymakers should avoid booking any international travel during the coronavirus crisis, warned Tourism Minister Simon Birmingham.

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Nigeria: 3 Christians Killed in 2 Separate Attacks by Fulani Muslim Extremists

Three Christians in Nigeria were killed in recent days as Fulani Muslims in two states launched brutal attacks.

Two Christians in the state of Benue were decapitated by the nomadic militants on Monday, while a Christian farmer was shot in the head on Saturday.

The country has seen a rising tide of religious violence since the beginning of the year, with hundreds of Nigerian Christians having been murdered since the start of 2020.

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A New Species of Black Endemic Iguanas in Caribbean is Proposed for Urgent Conservation

A newly discovered endemic species of melanistic black iguana (Iguana melanoderma), discovered in Saba and Montserrat islands, the Lesser Antilles (Eastern Caribbean), appears to be threatened by unsustainable harvesting (including pet trade) and both competition and hybridization from escaped or released invasive alien iguanas from South and Central America.

International research group calls for urgent conservation measures in the article, recently published in the open-access journal ZooKeys.

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Greece: Turkey Again Driving Thousands of Migrants to Border

Turkey is shepherding thousands of migrants to its border with Europe, Greece claims, citing satellite photographs showing large numbers of people on the move.

There are thousands of people being moved to the Greek border from within the Turkish interior, a Greek government spokesman has said, just weeks after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government warned he would be reopening the migration floodgates after the coronavirus pandemic had calmed.

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Libya Returns African Migrants to Their Countries of Origin

Libya is the main point of departure for thousands of African migrants who attempt to enter Europe illegally via the Mediterranean Sea each year, forcing European countries to expend considerable resources deciding whom to admit and whom to send back. But now, Libya itself is the one sending them back.

On Sunday, authorities in the eastern region of Libya announced that they had sent 236 illegal African migrants back to their countries of origin, according to a report by Xinhuanet. The statement, which was issued by Libya’s Department for Combating Illegal Immigration, said that the order for their deportation had been given by the General Command of the Army along with the Ministry of the Interior.

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Report: Turkey Plans to Send Fresh Wave of Corona-Infected Migrants to Europe

Voice of America reports that Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan is planning to send a fresh wave of migrants to Europe, with officials fearing many of them will be infected with coronavirus.

“Greek forces are on heightened alert as reports have surfaced that Turkey is preparing to push through a fresh wave of migrants to Europe. Officials in Athens say, they fear that refugees infected with the coronavirus may be among the new wave of asylum seekers,” reports VOA.

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UK Refuses to Take Migrants From Greece

The United Kingdom’s Home Office has said that it will not accept children from migrant camps on the Greek islands.

Numerous pro-migrant groups, such as the international Doctors without Borders organization, have been petitioning the UK in recent weeks to accept unaccompanied migrant children from Greece due to fears that the camps are especially at risk for spreading the coronavirus (COVID-19) due to their dense populations and poor sanitary conditions.

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Underage Migrants Arrested After 28 Pharmacies Robbed in French City

Police have arrested four unaccompanied minor migrants in Bordeaux in connection with the burglaries or attempted burglaries of 28 pharmacies in the city and surrounding area.

Officers arrested the minor migrants over the weekend as they were caught in the act of trying to break into a pharmacy. Deputy prosecutor Olivier Etienne requested three of the four remain in custody until their trial.

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Canadian Army Personnel Now Forbidden From Using Gendered Pronouns in Official Documents

Personnel in the Canadian Armed Forces are now forbidden from using gendered pronouns in official documents, with administrators now being required to use “they/them” pronouns when referring to an individual.

The government said the new policy “reflect[s] this new reality where sex, gender identity, and gender expression are prohibited grounds of discrimination” under Canadian law. Personnel are permitted to use an individual’s rank and name in addition to the gender-neutral signifiers.

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Feminists Attack Proposed Polish Law Banning Abortions on Babies With Disabilities

Feminist and abortion activists have launched a series of protests against a proposed law in Poland banning abortions that target babies with disabilities.

The proposed legislation, drafted by parliamentarian Kaja Godek, would protect babies with disabilities such as Down syndrome from being selected for elimination. The bill will be debated by legislators in Sejm on Wednesday.

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Tech Giants Like Google Begin Censoring ‘Unapproved Sermons’ As Churches Are Forced Online Due to Coronavirus Lockdown

Churches are now employing popular social media and video sharing platforms to conduct their services and broadcast their sermons. But how will the tech giants and social media outlets respond, especially considering their tendency to censor unapproved messages? Well, it would appear straight-up banning churches isn’t off the table for some platforms, as a church in Moscow, Idaho discovered last week.

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UK: BBC Censors ‘Little Britain’ Because it Offends Snowflakes

Classic BBC Comedy Little Britain is rumoured to be making a comeback, but the BBC is said to have banned many of its beloved characters in order not to cause offence, according to co-creators and co-writers Matt Lucas and David Walliams.

BBC execs are rumoured to be ensuring that the show is being tailored to more modern sensibilities like the original did in its time.

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UK: Former Prisons Minister Reveals Trans Inmates Have Raped Female Staff

London mayoral candidate and former government minister responsible for prisons Rory Stewart has revealed that trans inmates raped female staff during his time in office.

Stewart, a noted anti-Brexiteer with a colourful life history — the British Hong Kong-born politician has served as a diplomat, as a member of the provisional government in Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, and is thought by many to be a former MI6 asset — made the remarks in an interview with GQ magazine.

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Which is Going to Die First — Corona Virus Fever or Climate Change?

Cui bono — who benefits from this globalist scheme?

The news is dire and, in some ways getting worse. There are more reported “cases” of corona virus infections every day and, as of late, more “climate change” alarmism, sometimes in the same breath.

Government entities around the world have prescribed draconian measures to curtail individual freedoms of all kinds, like assembly and movement, like voicing opinions and more. All of that solely in the name of fighting the COVID-19 (CV-19) virus.

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13 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/14/2020

  1. “UK: Migrant Rapist to be Released After Airline Passenger Revolt”
    1) were there no normal people on the plane and if they were, why didn’t they argue back?
    2) why aren’t deportations flown back via military aircraft? It would prevent this behaviour.

  2. Kashkari? Cash and carry. Money printer go brrr when a traditional American asks for assistance.
    A 1929 style crash in an atomized society full of consumers with nothing in common but the devil’s excrement known as the dollar.
    It will soon be gone with the chip hidden in the mandatory vaccine.
    Comrade Billy Gates and Dr. Faustus (Fauci) will make billions.
    The Great Leap Forward accomplished in one month thanks to the enemedia and globalist traitors within all nations.

    Certificate
    Of
    Vaccination
    IDentification

  3. I’m seeing reports here and elsewhere about protests over church services being banned because of Covid-19, and note that the US Attorney-General has just weighed in in support of said congregations.

    OTOH, I read about some ultra-orthodox Jews, and many more muslims, in Western countries as well as further east, continuing to congregate; and the tone of these reports, especially regarding muslims, is generally less approving. Now I’m aware that the hosts of such sites, especially GoV, which is a broad church (pun intended), are not responsible for the views of individuals who comment, but it seems to me that if someone dies as a result of someone else, possibly not of their faith, going to church/synagogue/mosque, they’re not going to give a flying (fornication) about the faith of the culprit.

    • It’s the double standard that is the issue; plus the observation that when it comes to culture enrichers and laws, the police are often afraid to enforce on them what they have no trouble harrassing ethnic europeans about. The police are afraid of them, and the state refuses to back them up and also looks the other way to enforcement of laws in culturally enriched areas.

  4. Monheim: City gives Muslims a plot of 850,000 euros for a dominant new mosque building
    https://www.anonymousnews.ru/2020/04/12/monheim-grundstueck-moschee-neubau/

    Mayor Daniel Zimmermann, Mohamed Arab, treasurer of the Moroccan Islamic community, and architect Abdel-Hamid at the symbolic groundbreaking ceremony

    https://www.anonymousnews.ru/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/monheim-stadt-schenkt-moslems-850-000-euro-grundstueck-fuer-dominanten-moschee-neubau-990×556.jpg.webp

    • Mayor Daniel Zimmermann,..friend from Germany told me hi is very unpopular in Mannheim “German” Jew..you figure..

  5. ‘Little Britain’ should not return to our screens, it is simplistic garbage.

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